Each month we choose a favorite quote--something fun or something to make you think.
See the archive for quotes from previous months.

So I'd seen some pretty heavy crap for a guy my age. But I clung
desperately to my youthful idiocy as much as I could. You'd think that
nearly dying like I had would change my attitude--make me shape up, as
they say. But, as usual, life's lessons were wasted on me, and I learned
absolutely nothing. My dad left. I thought for a few minutes about the
implications of my dad's nervousness, and smallpox, and his rushing off to
see his NATO contacts in Brussels, and then I thought, I've got to have a
party.